Jacobitism (British History in Perspective (Hardcover St. Martins)) Unknown - 1998

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This book offers a comprehensive account of the whole Jacobite movement in Scotland, England, Ireland and Europe, including such topics as espionage, plots, finances, Jacobite culture, the role of women, Jacobitism and nationalism, and a full account of the Risings to restore the Stuarts. Beginning with an account of the Revolution of 1688 and the ensuing war in Scotland and Ireland, the book goes on to explore the religious and political factors which served to make the restoration of the Smarts the central challenge to the formation of the modern British state in the eighteenth century. Far from being merely a dynastic quarrel, Jacobitism is revealed as a major international movement at the core of Irish and Scottish nationalism in the period, and the catalyst for a large-scale diaspora of military and cultural talent. Jacobitism is a book which challenges conventional accounts of the eighteenth century, while also providing a discriminating overview of the development and merits of the revisionist historiography of the last twenty-five years.